On August 22 and 23, I began to notice that parts of Counter-Currents were breaking: inventory was not being updated after sales, the print option disappeared, etc. Then, on Monday, the website went offline. Naturally, I panicked.

The Idiots (Idioterne) is not an accessible film, and neither is it is easy to digest. The sexual content is so extreme that The Idiots is rated the same as any pornographic film in the United Kingdom, Spain, Australia, Norway, and several others. The depiction of mentally disabled individuals, both real and those merely acting as such, is alarming and controversial. During the screening at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998, film critic Mark Kermode was removed from the venue for exclaiming, ‘Il est merde!’ Read more …